Luisa Valenzuela, Author Grupo Editorial Norma $24.1 (398p) ISBN 978-987-545-026-4
Argentine writer Valenzuela is widely known for her award-winning novel Novela negra con argentinos (Black Novel, EDSU, 1991) and the short story collection Aqui pasan cosas raras (Strange Things Happen Here, Ediciones de la Flor, 1991). Just...
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Luisa Valenzuela, Author Simon & Schuster $19.5 (220p) ISBN 978-0-671-68764-9
This highly provocative novel infuses S & M titillation into a slow-moving, psychoanalytical plot about two lovers who are irrevocably changed by a murder that one of them commits. In the opening pages, Agustin, an Argentine writer living in New...
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Luisa Valenzuela, Author, Margaret Jull Costa, Translator Serpent's Tail $12.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-85242-313-1
In this brisk satire, a woman returns to her newly democratized Latin American home and at the suggestion of a friend, retreats to a country club for some rest. To her mounting bewilderment, the country's unexpected turmoil pursues her into the...
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Luisa Valenzuela, trans. from the Spanish by Susan E. Clark. Dalkey Archive, $15.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-56478-631-9
A raw compilation of sexual escapes, dreams, letters, and memories make up this "apocryphal autobiography" by Argentinean novelist Valenzuela (Clara) as she revisits the years she lived in New York City, starting in 1979. A recurring theme, she...
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Luisa Valenzuela, Author, Andrea G. Labinger, Translator Latin American Literary Review Press $15.95 (159p) ISBN 978-1-891270-09-3
This crisp translation of the first major novel of Argentine writer Valenzuela, published in 1966 in Spanish, and in an English edition (now out of print) by Harcourt in 1976, is raw, sensuous and stylish as a tango. After her father makes it clear...
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Luisa Valenzuela, Author, David Unger, Translator, Margaret Sayers Peden, Translator North Point Press $12.95 (201p) ISBN 978-0-86547-310-2
This collection gathers stories from Clara and Strange Things Happen Here, as well as 14 others appearing for the first time in English. All 32 pieces glow with Valenzuela's piercing blend of mysticism and reality. Some tales clearly refer to the...
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